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She’s still rolling: Adele voted as AP Entertainer of the Year Banner year. Singer finishes out 2012 with another award, beating out PSY, Twilight cast, Taylor Swift and author E.L. James Though Adele didn’t have a new album or a worldwide tour in 2012, she’s still rolling. After a year of Grammy glory and James Bond soundtracking, Adele has been voted The Associated Press Entertainer of the Year. In 132 ballots submitted by members and subscribers of the AP, Adele easily outpaced other vote-getters like Taylor Swift, Fifty Shades of Grey author E.L. James, the South Korean viral video star PSY and the cast of Twilight. Editors and broadcasters were asked to cast their ballot for the person who had the most influence on entertainment and culture in 2012.
real name is Adele Adkins, as a pop queen. She won six awards, including album of “There was an overwhelming embrace of Adele and the year. It was also a comeher music. And that was never more evident to me back of sorts for Adele, who for the first time than when I heard teenagers express their enthusi- performed since having vocal cord surastic expectations for the new James Bond movie gery, drawing a standing ovation from the Staples Center because Adele performed the theme song.” crowd. Joe Butkiewicz Accepting the album of the year award, a teary Adele Adele’s year began in tri- early 2011, 21 was also the exclaimed: “Mum, girl did umph at the Grammys, took top-selling album on iTunes good!” The emotional, sniffling singer endeared many a turn through recording the for the second year running. As David Panian, news viewers to her when she theme to the 007 film Skyfall and ended with the birth of editor for Michigan’s Daily copped in her acceptance her son in October. The ubi- Telegram, put it: “It just speech to having “a bit of quitous Adele was that rare seemed like you couldn’t turn snot.” “This record is inspired thing in pop culture — an un- on the radio without hearing by something that is really qualified sensation, a mega- one of her songs.” Women have had a lock normal and everyone’s been star in a universe of niche on the annual Entertainer of through it, just a rubbish rehits. By the end of the year, the Year selection. Previous lationship,” said Adele. But her luck in love has her sophomore album, 21, winners include Lady Gaga, had passed 10 million copies Taylor Swift, Betty White and since turned, thanks to her sold in the U.S., only the 21st Tina Fey. Stephen Colbert is boyfriend Simon Konecki. album in the Nielsen Sound- the lone male winner in the In an interview with Vogue magazine, Adele said she was Scan era (begun in 1991) six-year history of voting. The Grammy Awards in through with breakup recto achieve diamond status. Buoyed by hits like Someone February were essentially ords and done being “a bitter Like You and Rolling in the the de facto crowning of theT:10”witch.” When Adele announced Deep long after its release in 24-year-old Adele, whose Quoted
in June that she was having a baby with Konecki, her website promptly crashed under the heavy traffic. Their son was born in October. With such an avalanche of success and now a mother of a newborn son, Adele has understandably taken a step out of the spotlight. One notable exception was recording the opening credits theme song to Skyfall. The song was recorded with her 21 producer Paul Epworth at the Abbey Road Studios in London with a 77-piece orchestra. Within hours, it zoomed to the top of digital charts. “There was an overwhelming embrace of Adele and her music,” said Joe Butkiewicz, executive editor of the Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. “And that was never more evident to me than when I heard teenagers express their enthusiastic expectations for the new James Bond movie because Adele performed the theme song.” The Associated Press
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